Online Tutorials and Training

Discover how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017—the popular web design and development application—to create and publish websites using standards-based technology and a simplified user interface. In this course, David Powers shows how to get started with Dreamweaver, covering the user interface and providing guidance on creating new files, setting up a logical structure for content, and generating clear and accessible code. David explains how to format basic HTML and CSS using the visual and code-based tools in Dreamweaver. He also explores site management techniques, including checking for broken links, connecting to a remote server, and managing multiple sites.

WordPress offers powerful content management for your website while Dreamweaver CC enables easy design and coding–a potent combination. In this course, you'll explore how to integrate WordPress into a Dreamweaver site, allowing you to edit and expand your code with Dreamweaver's native tools. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to take WordPress themes to the next level, using CSS customization and jQuery widgets. He also covers how to make your pages responsive to tablet and phone layouts, and develop category-driven layouts. Finally, you'll investigate how to extend WordPress with plugins, style them with Dreamweaver, and get your finished website online using Dreamweaver's publishing and testing tools.

You understand that behind those interactive webpages you encounter is code that is being read and rendered by your browser, and you're ready to understand that code further so you can build a website. Paul Trani helps you achieve that goal in this course where he explains the fundamentals of web design and shows how to put them into practice. Paul starts by explaining how the web works, and then he dives into the specifics of HTML and CSS. This prepares you for the next thing he demonstrates—how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CC to create webpages. He shows how to lay out your pages and stylize content, followed by how to add navigation. Then, he shows how to make sure your page is responsive so that it can fluidly work across many form factors, like mobile devices. Follow along with Paul to create your first website, complete with headers, footers, multimedia, links to your social profiles, and more.

Learn how to use the built-in tools in Dreamweaver to create rich, accessible web forms. In this course, instructor David Karlins shows how to use HTML5, CSS3, and the form-creation tools and code assistance features in Dreamweaver to build modern-looking forms that are responsive and easy to use, whether displayed on a desktop or mobile device. He also shows how to validate the data you receive with HTML5 form input types. Plus, learn how to style the forms to match the look of your website. By the end of the course, you'll have the necessary skills to build forms to take orders, collect contact information, and solicit feedback from your users—making your websites more interactive and engaging.

In this course, author Joseph Lowery shows how to build a mobile WordPress site in Adobe Dreamweaver. The course explains how to prepare a site to go mobile, optimize a site's styles for tablets and phones, and implement a full mobile redesign. The course also covers working with WordPress child themes, integrating media queries, incorporating screen-optimized graphics, designing for touch screens, and working with orientation changes. Exercise files accompany the course.

Responsive web design allows designers to control the look and feel of their website on multiple screen sizes and platforms. This course illustrates two approaches to responsive web design in Dreamweaver CC: the first using Dreamweaver's Fluid Grid Layout tool and the second using media queries. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to use the Fluid Grid Layout framework to create a single website for desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Then he turns to media queries to handle orientation changes, target high-resolution displays like that in the iPhone 6, and hide content when necessary. The final chapter of the course illustrates how to handle images and media responsively.